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Miss Evelina Anville, the novel's main character, is the daughter of Lady Caroline Belmont (born Caroline Evelyn) and Sir John Belmont. A series of letters convey the story, and she summarizes specific experiences of her life, mainly to her guardian/pseudo-father Reverend Villars. She embodies the desirable traits for women at the time.
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was a founder of literary realism, of which the novel of manners is a subgenre.. To realise upward social mobility in their societies, men and women learned etiquette in order to know how to get along with the people from whom they sought favour; an example of such instructions is the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a ...
The Evelina M. Goulart is an 83-foot (25.2-meter) fishing schooner built by Arthur D. Story in the Story Shipyard (now the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum) in 1927. She is one of seven surviving Essex-built fishing schooners and the only one to be virtually unchanged from its original configuration.
Eva Giovanna Antonietta Cattermole, better known as Evelina or Lina Cattermole (Florence, 26 October 1849 – Rome, 30 November 1896), was an Italian writer and poet. She also wrote novellas and other works in prose.
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen.
Evelina Zuni Lucero (born October 10, 1953 [1]) is a Native American (Isleta Pueblo/Ohkay Owingeh) novelist, poet and journalist. Her novel Night Sky, Morning Star won the 1999 First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas .
M. Evelina Galang (born Harrisburg, PA in 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, educator, and activist of Filipina descent. [1] Her novel One Tribe won the AWP Novel of the Year Prize in 2004.
Evelina, the last Countess Pisani, died in the summer of 1900, aged 68 years, in Italy. [8] The family's former villa in Vescovana, now an inn, encourages visitors to look and listen for Evelina's ghost haunting her gardens. [9] An event every spring, "I Bulbi di Evelina Pisani", celebrates the blooming of her tulip gardens. [10] [11]